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Retro: Detroit/Windsor Sat, Aug 2, 1975

B

Bluenoser

from Detroit News

WJBK 2-CBS
5:50 Message for Today/News
6:00 Across the Fence
6:30 Summer Semester
7:00 Bailey's Comets
7:30 US of Archie
8:00 My Favorite Martians
8:30 Speed Buggy
9:00 Jeannie
9:30 Pebbles & Bamm Bamm
10:00 Scooby-Doo, Where are You?
10:30 Shazam!
11:00 Valley of the Dinosaurs
11:30 Hudson Brothers Razzle Dazzle Comedy Show
noon Harlem Globetrotters Popcorn Machine
12:30 Fat Albert & the Cosby Kids
1:00 CBS Children's Film Festival "Strange Holiday" (from Australia)
2:00 Sir Graves Ghastly "It Came from Outer Space"
4:00 Jerry (Hodak?) Visits (guest Dyan Cannon)
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular (World Swimming Championships pt 2)
6:00 News (Woody Willis/Don Lark)
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 $25,000 Pyramid
8:00 All in the Family
8:30 Jeffersons
9:00 Mary Tyler Moore
9:30 Bob Newhart
10:00 Moses, the Lawgiver (conclusion)
11:00 News (Willis/Lark)
11:30 TV2 Weekend Movie "Catch as Catch Can"
1:30 TV2 Late Show "Stolen Face" (bw)

WWJ 4-NBC
6:55 First Edition News
7:00 Country Living "Garden Doctor"
7:30 Oopsy
8:30 Wheelie & the Chopper Bunch
9:00 Emergency Plus 4
9:30 Run, Joe, Run
10:00 Land of the Lost
10:30 Sigmund & the Sea Monsters
11:00 Pink Panther
11:30 Star Trek (animated)
noon Jetsons
12:30 Kiplinger Report
12:45 Champions
1:45 Tiger Talk
2:00 Baseball: Detroit-Boston (George Kell/Larry Osterman; Kell also hosted the pre-game show)
5:00 Westchester Classic golf
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Profiles in Black (Gil Maddox interviews Woody King (director of What the Wine Sellers Buy, which was playing at the Fisher), Ron Trice (star of the play), and the Detroit FD's Carl Boldon)
7:30 Masquerade Party
8:00 Emergency!
9:00 NBC Saturday Night at the Movies "Goodbye Again" (bw)
11:20 News
11:50 Tonight Show (guests Sammy Davis Jr., Jack Cassidy, and Steve Martin)

WXYZ 7-ABC
6:40 News
7:00 Old Time Comedies "Stage Hand" (bw)
7:30 Korg: 70,000 BC
8:00 Yogi's Gang
8:30 Bugs Bunny
9:00 Hong Kong Phooey
9:30 Gilligan
10:00 Devlin
10:30 Lassie's Rescue Rangers
11:00 Superfriends
noon These are the Days
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Lone Ranger
2:00 Wanted: Dead or Alive (bw)
2:30 NFL Action
3:00 Water World
3:30 Animal World "Forest in the Sea"
4:00 ABC Wide World of Sports (AFC-NFC Hall of Fame Game: Washington-Cincinnati)
7:00 ABC Evening News
7:30 Treasure Hunt
8:00 Keep on Truckin'
9:00 ABC Saturday Night Movie "Money from Home"
11:00 News (Van Marshall/Larry Adderly)
11:15 ABC News
11:30 Saturday Night Movies "Rio Concho"/"Thunder in the East" (second film bw)
3:30 Soundings

CKLW 9-CBC (also some CTV programs, station was partially owned by the owners of CTV Toronto flagship CFTO)
8:00 Cartoon Playhouse
8:30 Uncle Bobby
9:00 Forest Rangers omnibus
11:30 Carol Mann Golf Challenge (Carol takes on David Wayne)
noon Frank DeAngelis
12:30 Music to See (pianist Monica Gaylor)
1:00 Greatest Sports Legends
1:30 Country Canada
2:00 CBC Sports
3:30 Swiss Family Robinson
4:30 Red Fisher
5:00 Tarzan Theatre
6:00 My Father the Ghost
7:00 Police Surgeon
8:00 Baseball: Philadelphia-Montreal
10:30 Sportsweek
11:00 The National
11:15 A Look Back
11:30 Nightmare Theatre "Snake People"

WXON 20-Ind
11:30 Rocket Robin Hood
noon Marvel Super Heroes
12:30 Ultra Man
1:00 Batman
1:30 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (bw)
2:30 Daniel Boone
3:30 Champions
4:30 Rifleman (bw)
5:00 Adventures Outdoors
5:30 Jimmy Dean
6:00 Cinema 20 "Gilda" (bw)
8:00 Presenting the Van Impes (the biggest sign of the Apocalypse in Detroit before the implosion of the auto industry :D)
8:30 Public Policy Forum "Health Insurance-What Should Be the Federal Role?" (pt 2)
9:30 Temple Baptist Church
10:00 700 Club
11:30 Right On

WKBD 50-Ind
7:30 Insight "Sandalmaker"
8:00 Jabberwocky (from WCVB Boston, which aired this early Saturday mornings well into the start of this century)
8:30 Big Blue Marble
9:00 Friends of Man
9:30 Saturday Morning Movie "Thundering Jets" (bw)
11:00 Big Time Wrestling
noon Chiller Movie "Brain from Planet Arous" (bw)
1:30 Saturday Action Movie "American Guerilla in the Philippines" (bw)
4:00 Saturday Afternoon Movie "The Marauders"
6:00 Star Trek
7:00 Lawrence Welk (Sweet Music)
8:00 That Good Ole Nashville Music (guests Don Gibson, Larry Gatlin, and Scotti Carson)
8:30 Night Gallery "Lindermann's Catch"
9:00 Perry Mason (bw)
10:00 Lou Gordon (rerunning Lou's press conference on utility rates)
11:30 World Beyond Movie "Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism"

WTVS 56-PBS
2pm A Bit with Knit
3:00 Consumer Survival Kit "All Charged Up"
3:30 Trains, Tracks & Trestles
4:00 Love Tennis "The Valley"
4:30 Play Bridge with the Experts
5:00 Speaking Freely (guest Arthur Ashe)
6:00 Life of Leonardo da Vinci
7:00 Firing Line "Should the government have secrets?" (Buckley is joined by NY Times journo Morton Halperin)
8:00 Philadelphia Folk Festival (guitar workshop with Arlo Guthrie, Patrick Sky, Alistair Anderson, the Buffalo Gals, Bruce Cockburn, and Martin Carthy)
9:00 Special of the Week (salute to Charles Ives)
10:00 Bergman Film Festival "Port of Call" (bw)
 
Bluenoser takes us back 38 years to Detroit said:
WKBD 50-Ind

11:00 Big Time Wrestling
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At least one other Kaiser station broadcast professional wrestling on Saturday mornings at 11 A.M. during the 1970's: WKBG/WLVI-56 here in Boston.

Wrestling ran for decades on WKBG/WLVI in that time period and it's my understanding that it was the most-watched Saturday-morning TV program in Boston for much of that time and was one of WLVI's most popular programs!

I wonder if the other Kaiser stations likewise ran "rassling" on Saturdays at 11 A.M. local.

I suspect WKBD's wrestling show wasn't the same as WLVI's; if the American Wrestling Alliance's (AWA) "territory" included Detroit, I would think that's what WKBD showed. WLVI carried the World Wrestling Federation's (WWF; now known as WWE) syndicated "Championship Wrestling" in that slot during the middle 1970's.
 
Correction: Ven Marshall, not Van.

William F. Buckley discusses should the government have secrets? Now the question is should people have secrets? It was a better world when Buckley was the voice of conservatism and Rush was doing top 40.
 
Jack is still on. Looks a bit over the hill lately, grayer and fatter. But he's still predicting the end of the world. Since Detroit is mostly vacant lots now, no need to use the streets for a quickie.

She is probably way past her "best used by date" by their is something about Rexella! ::) All those years with Jack; what a waste!
 
This would've been less than a month before Baton sold its stake in CKLW-TV and CBC took full ownership, changing its call letters to CBET. From my understanding CBET kept some CTV programming as late as the late 1980s, though gradually declining over time.
 
Big Time Wrestling was indeed the TV for Ed "The Sheik" Farhat's local Detroit promotion. Big Time Wrestling had a long and varied history on Detroit TV, having aired on CKLW, WXON, WKBD, and finally WGPR over the course of the late 1950s to early 1980s. Also, in the 1960s, there was a rival TV wrestling show, Motor City Wrestling, that ran on WXYZ.
 
I was 8 years old at the time. I would be watching Marvel Superheroes and Ultra Man before switching to Big Time Wrestling. My Uncles, who are 11 & 12 years older than me, used to scare me with stories of the Sheik setting Bobo Brazil's shoes on fire.
 
OldNumber7 said:
Wasn't Global on the air with a Windsor area station that summer? Or when did that happen?
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The transmitter CKGN-TV-1 channel 22, signed on from Cottam when the Global network began broadcasting in 1974, though to my recollection, was never listed in the US papers.
 
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